Foreground Applications

Is there a way to NOT make an application become foreground?
But still be able to get user input?
Like maybe, whenever my program is foreground,
make Desktop become foreground?

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>>1, I don't think you understand the "focus" paradigm of window managers. Either it has focus, or it does not. There are ways to enable global hotkeys within the manager (like Winamp's hotkey controls), but some TurboC++ project you compiled at school probably doesn't have what you need to do what you're asking.

>>4
Hi, thanks for your feedback.
But I need to kinda FORCE Windows 2000 to treat my application as a background window even if it is the foreground window.
Hacking is in the list.

Just like there's an "always on top" window attribute, I believe there's an "always on bottom".

How do I read documentation?

>>6

Yeah, SetWindowPos with the HWND_BOTTOM parameter does that. He probably would want to hide the window instead though, using ShowWindow.

Keystroke capture can be done using SetWindowsHookEx with WH_KEYBOARD.

>>8
Hi, thanks for your feedback and idea :)
I'm sure your method will be able to work,
and I will probably try it out in coming days.
But I worry in advance that it may not be the most effecient way
because the whole reason for me wanting to do this
(treating my foreground window as a background window)
is to avoid Windows boosting its priority, which UNFORTUNATELY causes my realtime program to run slower instead of faster.

>>9
(update & correction)
I mean to avoid Windows boosting its priority or quantum or both

>>9
Tweak process priority class or thread priority to your liking

>>11
Hi, thanks for your feedback :)
But I have tried that already and it doesn't work as I want it too

Then you'll have to edit your registry to alter your quanta settings (somewhere in HKLM\System I think), but this will affect all applications, I'm afraid... See if you can find a Win32 wizard with a better solution, I'm barely a Win32 programmer.

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